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Hi, this is Christi Ferretti with Expert Village. Here to give you some helpful tips about selecting
meat in a grocery store. And what I have here is a boneless ribeye steak. And when you are
looking for a steak, what you want to look for is not the bright red no fat that mom
always sent you to the store for. What gives meat a flavor and what gives meat a good texture
is going to be a little bit of fat. And particularly a ribeye is going to have a little more than
normal. But then also the marbling that's inside, now mine is condensating a little
bit so you might not be able to see it. But there is a little marbling throughout. Now
that's not fat that you are going to taste as in terms of feeling in your mouth. But
what it?s going to do is it?s going to give moisture to your meat. So any time you are
looking at buying red meat that is what you are looking for. You also want to make sure
that the meat is being stored properly. That the thermometer on the temperature, the temperature
on the thermometer is below forty-one degrees so it?s kept cold. And if you are me, you
want to look for steaks that look like this. Now bear with me for a second. Because you
don't want anything that's green or funny looking. But anytime a meat starts to age,
it oxidizes. So the bloods in the meat will start to turn from a red to a brown color.
That's just age. To a certain degree, this is actually going to be a more flavorful,
more tender steak. And typically discounted in the grocery stores. So shop smart. Look
for marbling and shop in the end section and save your self a few bucks.